Flashcards
3rd movement (Fast) from Electric Counterpoint
Cards in this deck (13)
- 1cellsshort musical ideas
- 2phasingwhen two or more versions of a motif are played at the same time but slightly out of sync, with the parts gradually coming back together after a number of repetitions
- 3note additiona method of developing cells by gradually adding notes to the original cell
- 4note subtractionas for note addition but taking notes away
- 5loopa section of a piece of muisc which is edited so that it can be repeated seamlessly by electronic means
- 6resultant melodya new melody produced whan a variety of parts each play their melodies at the same time
- 7tonal ambiguityehrn the key of a piece is uncertain
- 8droneslong continuous note or constantly repeated note (can be any pitch but s often a low note)
- 9metamorphosisgradually changing from one musical idea to another often by changing one note at a time
- 10layeringadding new musical parts usually one at a time, the parts will often interact with each other froming a complex texture
- 11augmentationextending the durations of rhythmic patterns eg quavers become crotchets and crotchets become minims
- 12diminutionthe opposite of augmentation
- 13static harmonythe piece appears to have only one long chord which only changes very gradually, if at all